County: Cork Site name: YOUGHAL BRICKWORKS, Youghal
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 67:12 Licence number: 00E0659
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: Brickworks
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 610504m, N 578031m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.954270, -7.847171
Testing was carried out at this site in advance of the proposed Youghal bypass. Two test-trenches were opened by mechanical digger on 4 September 2000. Both ran north-east/south-west along the length of the road route from the river westwards for a distance of c. 280m. There was a large quantity of brick rubble in the trenches, suggesting that brick waste from the brickworks was used either to stabilise the ground between the brickworks and the river or to fill in areas where the estuarine clay had been removed for brick-making.
No archaeological finds or features were noted.
1 Charlemont Heights, Coach Hill, Rochestown, Co. Cork
